How to get a list of images on docker registry v2

Question

For the latest (as of 2015-07-31) version of Registry V2, you can get this image from DockerHub:

docker pull distribution/registry:master

List all repositories (effectively images):

curl -X GET https://myregistry:5000/v2/_catalog
> {"repositories":["redis","ubuntu"]}

List all tags for a repository:

curl -X GET https://myregistry:5000/v2/ubuntu/tags/list
> {"name":"ubuntu","tags":["14.04"]}

If the registry needs authentication you have to specify username and password in the curl command

curl -X GET -u <user>:<pass> https://myregistry:5000/v2/_catalog
curl -X GET -u <user>:<pass> https://myregistry:5000/v2/ubuntu/tags/list

you can search on

http://<ip/hostname>:<port>/v2/_catalog

Get catalogs

Default, registry api return 100 entries of catalog, there is the code:

When you curl the registry api:

curl --cacert domain.crt https://your.registry:5000/v2/_catalog

it equivalents with：

curl --cacert domain.crt https://your.registry:5000/v2/_catalog?n=100

This is a pagination methond.

When the sum of entries beyond 100, you can do in two ways:

First: give a bigger number

curl --cacert domain.crt https://your.registry:5000/v2/_catalog?n=2000

Sencond: parse the next linker url

curl --cacert domain.crt https://your.registry:5000/v2/_catalog

A link element contained in response header:

curl --cacert domain.crt https://your.registry:5000/v2/_catalog

response header:

Link: </v2/_catalog?last=pro-octopus-ws&n=100>; rel="next"

The link element have the last entry of this request, then you can request the next 'page':

curl --cacert domain.crt https://your.registry:5000/v2/_catalog?last=pro-octopus-ws

If the response header contains link element, you can do it in a loop.

Get Images

When you get the result of catalog, it like follows:

{ "repositories": [ "busybox", "ceph/mds" ] }

you can get the images in every catalog:

curl --cacert domain.crt https://your.registry:5000/v2/busybox/tags/list

returns:

{"name":"busybox","tags":["latest"]}

The latest version of Docker Registry available from https://github.com/docker/distribution supports Catalog API. (v2/_catalog). This allows for capability to search repositories

If interested, you can try docker image registry CLI I built to make it easy for using the search features in the new Docker Registry distribution (https://github.com/vivekjuneja/docker_registry_cli)

We wrote a CLI tool for this purpose: docker-ls It allows you to browse a docker registry and supports authentication via token or basic auth.

This has been driving me crazy, but I finally put all the pieces together. As of 1/25/2015, I've confirmed that it is possible to list the images in the docker V2 registry ( exactly as @jonatan mentioned, above. )

I would up-vote that answer, if I had the rep for it.

Instead, I'll expand on the answer. Since registry V2 is made with security in mind, I think it's appropriate to include how to set it up with a self signed cert, and run the container with that cert in order that an https call can be made to it with that cert:

This is the script I actually use to start the registry:

sudo docker stop registry
sudo docker rm -v registry
sudo docker run -d \
  -p 5001:5001 \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  --restart=always \
  --name registry \
  -v /data/registry:/var/lib/registry \
  -v /root/certs:/certs \
  -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_CERTIFICATE=/certs/domain.crt \
  -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_KEY=/certs/domain.key \ 
  -e REGISTRY_HTTP_DEBUG_ADDR=':5001' \
  registry:2.2.1

This may be obvious to some, but I always get mixed up with keys and certs. The file that needs to be referenced to make the call @jonaton mentions above**, is the domain.crt listed above. ( Since I put domain.crt in /root, I made a copy into the user directory where it could be accessed. )

curl --cacert ~/domain.crt https://myregistry:5000/v2/_catalog
> {"repositories":["redis","ubuntu"]}

**The command above has been changed: -X GET didn't actually work when I tried it.

Note: https://myregistry:5000 ( as above ) must match the domain given to the cert generated.

Install registry:2.1.1 or later (you can check the last one, here) and use GET /v2/_catalog to get list.

https://github.com/docker/distribution/blob/master/docs/spec/api.md#listing-repositories

Lista all images by Shell script example: https://gist.github.com/OndrejP/a2386d08e5308b0776c0